You wouldn't need a crossover cable. 10G ports, as with most/all others these days, are auto-MDIX. They know when they should be in crossover mode and switch automatically.
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I tried something similar one time but not on ESXi. Two ports can’t have the same IP address so I created an /etc/hosts file so each host knew about the other based on hostname and not ip address.
Make the 10.0.0._ addresses loopback addresses, and do point-to-point connections from each box to every other box. No idea how to do this in ESXi, but it’s straightforward in *nix/BSD.
I'd be wary of loops with your setup to be honest. Wouldn't it be possible to have server A go to B, B to C, and switch both interfaces of B in the same vswitch? Ngl I'm not that knowledgeable about esxi.
I've done this before without any loop issues.
I prefer using separate subnets for different network adapters. In any case, create vswitch and vmkernel for each network port and configure IPs.